The real story took place in Ann Arbor(Googles 'Dallas Egbert') they shot it in New York(there were little kids waving @ the camera)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IkuQouJqOA/pretty sure I'm still the only Farker who's ever met Jack Chick

How did they get the film rights with no strings attached? I find it hard to believe that Jack Chick's company would sell the film rights without some provision to make sure it wasn't going to be exactly this type of project.

That's also mentioned in the video/description as not going far enough in terms of "demonizing" the "evils" of *holding back laughter* roleplaying games.

I've worked on and off in hobby gaming since the mid-90s. I remember having to answer questions from concerned moms. Quite frankly, I don't like the idea of it even as parody because there will be people out there who don't get the joke. I know it's silly, and I know I'm heavily biased, but I think the best thing to do is let his "legacy" rot and shrivel away, which is the best thing you can do for attention whores like Jack Chick.

Mazes & Monsters is fun if you're in the mood to get wasted and watch horrible 80's movies (I'll also recommend Gymkata, Tuff Turf, and The Time Guardian). The idea of turning a Jack Chick tract into a film sounds like a recipe for hilarity, but a full-length film for any one of them does seem like it would drag on a bit. I'd be more curious to see multiple tracts adapted into an avant-garde short film anthology. Just imagine Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, or Jan Švankmajer making films based on Chick tracts.

Walter Paisley:Mazes & Monsters is fun if you're in the mood to get wasted and watch horrible 80's movies (I'll also recommend Gymkata, Tuff Turf, and The Time Guardian). The idea of turning a Jack Chick tract into a film sounds like a recipe for hilarity, but a full-length film for any one of them does seem like it would drag on a bit. I'd be more curious to see multiple tracts adapted into an avant-garde short film anthology. Just imagine Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, or Jan Švankmajer making films based on Chick tracts.

Strangely enough, I started re-watching Mazes and Monsters in parts a couple days ago, and have a part queued up in another window right now.

This feels like a giant troll. He goes on to say that the material will be presented with 100 percent seriousness and that this material can only be presented in a fully serious manner. The backers are given levels.

StealthStalker:Sorry, thought this was about http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained

You know, I'm a backer on that one and I'm looking forward to it, and I appreciate how the dev guy is answering people's questions, but there's just something about that guy that makes me hate listening to him for more than a few seconds.

Teufelaffe:StealthStalker: Sorry, thought this was about http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained

You know, I'm a backer on that one and I'm looking forward to it, and I appreciate how the dev guy is answering people's questions, but there's just something about that guy that makes me hate listening to him for more than a few seconds.

I felt the same way. I think it's the intermittent hesitation when he starts to make a mistake, and then corrects himself.

Tatsuma:I'm sorry but it already happened, and it's called the Veronica Mars movie kickstarter.

Unless we get a Firefly series out of kickstarter, or an isometric Fallout from it, ain't gonna be topped.

Veronica Mars. Firefly. Christ (I don't know who's behind Veronica Mars but), how much is Joss Whedon worth by now? Say what you will about Kevin Smith, he maxed out his credit cards to make Clerks. Of course now that he's rich, he cut the ending that he wanted for Red State because the budget ran out even though he could have easily afforded to fund it himself. It seems once they've made it, they're not so much passion projects anymore.

buckler:Teufelaffe: StealthStalker: Sorry, thought this was about http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained

You know, I'm a backer on that one and I'm looking forward to it, and I appreciate how the dev guy is answering people's questions, but there's just something about that guy that makes me hate listening to him for more than a few seconds.

I felt the same way. I think it's the intermittent hesitation when he starts to make a mistake, and then corrects himself.

Definitely has some issues with the presentation. I just hope that we hit close enough for them to potentially re-kickstart in the future and not abandon, if it fails this round. Have also enjoyed watching Michelle (one of their concept artists) do her live streams.

flondrix:How did they get the film rights with no strings attached? I find it hard to believe that Jack Chick's company would sell the film rights without some provision to make sure it wasn't going to be exactly this type of project.

fusillade762:flondrix: How did they get the film rights with no strings attached? I find it hard to believe that Jack Chick's company would sell the film rights without some provision to make sure it wasn't going to be exactly this type of project.

From the official page:

Due to your obtaining the film rights to Dark Dungeon, will Jack Chick receive any money from this film?

No. Mr. Chick has not and will not receive any money from this film.

Yes, yes, I got that from the article. My question was how they got the right to do as they please with the source material.

Whoever wrote that headline is a complete farking idiot. "A New Generation"? That tract is at least 30 years old. fark. It barely covers *my* generation, much less the dribbling young shiats who probably put this on kickstarter in the first place.

flondrix:fusillade762: flondrix: How did they get the film rights with no strings attached? I find it hard to believe that Jack Chick's company would sell the film rights without some provision to make sure it wasn't going to be exactly this type of project.

From the official page:

Due to your obtaining the film rights to Dark Dungeon, will Jack Chick receive any money from this film?

No. Mr. Chick has not and will not receive any money from this film.

Yes, yes, I got that from the article. My question was how they got the right to do as they please with the source material.

They told him they were going to help spread the message about the horrors of Satanic role playing games?

The first thing my friend did when introducing me to D&D (3rd ed at the time) was to have me read the Chick tract. They then promptly gamer hazed me and got my thief killed by a dragon. 1st character ever made in a dice game, burnt to a crisp.

mat catastrophe:Dark Dungeons May Be The Reefer Madness For A New Generation

Whoever wrote that headline is a complete farking idiot. "A New Generation"? That tract is at least 30 years old. fark. It barely covers *my* generation, much less the dribbling young shiats who probably put this on kickstarter in the first place.

Except that the movie would be made now, meaning the movie would in fact be for a current generation.

fusillade762:flondrix: How did they get the film rights with no strings attached? I find it hard to believe that Jack Chick's company would sell the film rights without some provision to make sure it wasn't going to be exactly this type of project.

From the official page:

Due to your obtaining the film rights to Dark Dungeon, will Jack Chick receive any money from this film?

No. Mr. Chick has not and will not receive any money from this film.

I really want to see some proof that the rights were received from Chick, this smells like a scam.

Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas. They got a promise from their studio (Warner Bros?) that if they raised $2 million, the studio would pay part of the production and the distribution (which is a much safer bet once they saw the demand backing the $2m.)

Whoever wrote that headline is a complete farking idiot. "A New Generation"? That tract is at least 30 years old. fark. It barely covers *my* generation, much less the dribbling young shiats who probably put this on kickstarter in the first place.

Except that the movie would be made now, meaning the movie would in fact be for a current generation.

/Linear time, how does it farking work?

Humbug. Unless they make it about Twilight, no one's going to care. Hell, even thirty years ago the audience for something like this would be marginal. It's just another waste of time, money, and brains.

Walter Paisley:Mazes & Monsters is fun if you're in the mood to get wasted and watch horrible 80's movies (I'll also recommend Gymkata, Tuff Turf, and The Time Guardian). The idea of turning a Jack Chick tract into a film sounds like a recipe for hilarity, but a full-length film for any one of them does seem like it would drag on a bit. I'd be more curious to see multiple tracts adapted into an avant-garde short film anthology. Just imagine Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, or Jan Švankmajer making films based on Chick tracts.

Gymkata is to martial-arts movies what The Room is to actual movies...awesomely awful.

mat catastrophe:Dark Dungeons May Be The Reefer Madness For A New Generation

Whoever wrote that headline is a complete farking idiot. "A New Generation"? That tract is at least 30 years old. fark. It barely covers *my* generation, much less the dribbling young shiats who probably put this on kickstarter in the first place.

Well, it is from the time when Pepsitm was the choice of a new generationtm

The Dead Alewives already killed on this topic with a 3.5 minute audio spoof, and they did it way back in the 90's when anti-D&D hysteria was still marginally topical. Now this guy wants to make a full-length feature in effing 2013? He didn't just miss the boat, he's getting to the docks long after the river's dried up.

DreamyAltarBoy:mat catastrophe: Dark Dungeons May Be The Reefer Madness For A New Generation

Whoever wrote that headline is a complete farking idiot. "A New Generation"? That tract is at least 30 years old. fark. It barely covers *my* generation, much less the dribbling young shiats who probably put this on kickstarter in the first place.

Well, it is from the time when Pepsitm was the choice of a new generationtm